On the road Thursday night at Cedaredge for the second game of the season, the Moffat County Bulldogs’ girls basketball team fell to the host Bruins 46-35 on a night in which they struggled with foul trouble.
Against the Bruins, the Bulldogs were led by senior Emaleigh Papierski’s 15 points. Junior Halle Hamilton added 8 points. The loss drops the Bulldogs to 1-1 on the season, while the win pushes the Bruins to 3-0 on the season.
Throughout the game Thursday night, the Bulldogs struggled to stay out of foul trouble as junior Rylie Felten and junior Jacie Evenson fouled out, while Amber Salazar collected four fouls in the loss. The Bulldogs held their own in the final frame trying to claw back from a deficit that saw them go scoreless for more than 7 minutes of game action, covering the final minute of the first half until a jumper by Hamilton at the 2:33 mark of the third quarter broke the dry spell.
Coming off of a 12-9 season in the 2019-20 season, the Moffat County Bulldogs’ girls basketball team is looking to take the lessons learned in a hard-fought year and apply them to a challenging 2021 condensed season.
They’ll do that with a number of key underclassmen returning this year under new head coach Eric Hamilton.
The team looks to play a team- first brand of basketball, working hard, and out hustling teams on the floor. The key for the team according to head coach Eric Hamilton is to force teams to adapt to play their style, not the other way around.